Airlines: Visitor from Russia

The
U.S. got its first glimpse last week of a Russian jetliner that figures
to become a regular visitor. Into Washington's Dulles International
Airportand later into airports at Philadelphia and New York, flew
an Ilyushin-62 fan jet laden with caviar, vodka and souvenirs for
American reporters and dignitaries. Purpose of the visit was to pass
U.S. airworthiness and noise-abatement tests preliminary to the
introduction, long delayed by cold war vicissitudes, of nonstop
flights between New York and Moscow.

The service would involve one weekly round-trip flight each (two a
week during...